The freedom of obedience
Lately I have been reading Martha Thatcher’s “The Freedom of Obedience” for bible-study, and today I came across some points that I found helpful. The whole chapter “God’s incredible response” is centered around the Psalms and David’s profound intimate and secure relationship with God.
“What is the security of which David writes in the Psalms? Psalm 138:8 says “The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me; Your love, O Lord, endures forever.”
“David’s certainty was not based on circumstances, but on the character of God and the nature of His response to His obedient children.”
I went over a recent World magazine and came across an utterly revolting picture series of so called “religious” gestures; including one with Hillary Clinton praying at the Western Wall in Jerusalem. It seems that America has become a feel-good, when-you-want to “religious” nation. Come war, hurricanes and other hardships we moan and groan and either suddenly become “religious” or spend our time bashing God for what he has (or hasn’t) done.
I really wish I could outright tell an angry New Orleans victim that if you want results from God in hard times, you better stick with Him in the good, because He does not favor ungrateful, lazy whiners… and that’s just what a lot of Americans have become.
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1 comment:
I find it so hard to believe that you are just 15/16 years old. That was such a well thought out piece of critical thinking, that it would not surprise me if you were more like 30 instead of near half that.
I really like how at the end you were able to see through most of the BS that both the whiners and democrats (yet I repeat my self) have been spouting lately. It is so refreshing to see one that is not brainwashed by the public education system, and it fully capable of critical thought. Something so rare now days.
Good luck and God Bless.
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